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I love feigned outrage in the morning
It smells like...Republicans. The rule regarding insurance coverage for contraception has been around for a decade.
In December 2000, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that companies that provided prescription drugs to their employees but didn't provide birth control were in violation of Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, ( Read more... ) -
I want to like Disney.
I do. I grew up on Disney. I want to believe that they're making a good-faith effort to address their issues. And then I see crap like this:
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it's the time of year
When I bond with my role model Wednesday Addams, and post her brilliant satirical treatment of the "origin story" of Thanksgiving, along with its ghastly racist underpinnings. Wednesday, I salute you.
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was that a pin dropping?
Why are there so few directors who aren't white and male? Check out the silence and the body language of the white male directors being asked this question:
Apart from "I'm not stepping into that," I don't think I heard a complete sentence from the lot of them. I especially enjoyed the smirks at the idea of women directors. Yeah. That's it in a ( Read more... ) -
no points for subtlety, tossers
Okay, once upon a time there was a character in Harry Potter fandom named Blaise Zabini. And in the beginning no one knew much about hir, so sometimes s/he appeared in fic as a white girl or a white boy (you see where I'm going with this already, don't you). And then Rowling made it clear that Blaise was a black boy, and all hell broke loose in ( Read more... ) -
a case study
In how NOT to respond if someone calls you out on your privilege.
First of all, it's posts like this that led me to say what I said earlier. Like I said earlier, I don't have any problem with gay anything. Or black anything. Or Hispanic anything. Or trangender anything. Or (insert race/sexual orientation/ideology/whatever) anything ( Read more... ) -
the last word
On the birther business is from Baratunde Thurston, because he is more eloquent than I could ever be.
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